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Coat

Design House House of Chanel French
Designer Gabrielle Chanel French
ca. 1927
Not on view
The convergence of Art Deco line, the modernist impulse to facilitate pure form, and Japonisme's potential to offer a vocabulary of untailored wrapping shapes was more than fortuitous. Chanel uses a French ombré textile with pattern sources from the Japanese kimono but brings to it the ethos of chaste minimalism. As Western fashion designers discovered from the East that untailored lengths of fabric could constitute modern dress, the cylinder and the textile plane became the new forms for apparel.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Coat
  • Design House: House of Chanel (French, founded 1910)
  • Designer: Gabrielle Chanel (French, Saumur 1883–1971 Paris)
  • Date: ca. 1927
  • Culture: French
  • Medium: silk, metal
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, Catharine Breyer Van Bomel Foundation Fund, Hoechst Fiber Industries Gift, in honor of Diana Vreeland, and Chauncy Stillman Gifts, 1984
  • Object Number: 1984.30
  • Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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